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Clay Lucas is city editor for The Age. Clay has worked at The Age since 2005, covering state politics, urban affairs, transport, local government and workplace relations for The Age and Sunday Age. Clay won a Quill with Age investigative reporter Royce Millar in 2009.

James Massola, Clay Lucas
Australia's largest employer group has called for a minimum wage rise of just $8.50 a week, or 1.3 per cent – less than half the forecast rise in the cost of living of 2.7 per cent.

James Massola, Clay Lucas
Australia's highest profile unionist, Paul Howes, says his next job will not be as an MP in federal parliament, but he has left the door open to a future career in public life.

Ben Schneiders and Clay Lucas
As the Abbott government moves to revive the building industry watchdog, Victoria Police has revealed that not one criminal conviction was recorded as a result of its information over its seven years...

Matt O'Sullivan, James Massola, Clay Lucas
Qantas' heavily unionised workforce fears up to 3000 job cuts will be announced next week when the airline's management reveals how it plans to strip $2 billion in costs out of the business.

James Massola and Clay Lucas
The federal government is finalising plans for a sweeping review of the nation's workplace laws, and could hand-pick an industrial relations expert from outside the Productivity Commission to help...

James Massola, Clay Lucas
The federal government is finalising plans to launch a sweeping review of workplace laws and could hand-pick an industrial relations expert from outside the Productivity Commission to help lead the...

Clay Lucas and Mark Hawthorne
The end of car manufacturing in Australia - confirmed with Toyota's announcement that it would shut local production in 2017, taking thousands of jobs with it - could tip Victoria and South Australia...

Gareth Hutchens and Clay Lucas
Labor has demanded that the federal government say whether it plans to sell Australia Post, as a former commissioner of the competition regulator says the postal service ought to be privatised.

Gareth Hutchens, Clay Lucas
Labor has demanded that the federal government say whether it plans to sell Australia Post, as a former commissioner of the competition regulator says the postal service ought to be privatised.

Clay Lucas
Bullying complaints could swamp the Fair Work Commission when it begins hearing cases next month because the Gillard government did not put in adequate methods to filter out dubious or unsuitable...

Clay Lucas
Bullying complaints could swamp the Fair Work Commission when it begins hearing cases in January because the Gillard government did not apply adequate methods to filter out dubious or unsuitable...

Clay Lucas and Sam Hall
Toyota will challenge a judgment handed down by Federal Court Justice Mordy Bromberg that stopped the car maker putting 27 proposals to cut wages and conditions to staff at its Altona plant.

David Wroe, Clay Lucas
The government has unveiled a $100 million package to create jobs for Holden workers facing redundancy but predicted an end to so-called corporate welfare, insisting struggling manufacturers must...

David Wroe, Clay Lucas
The Abbott government has unveiled a $100 million package to create new jobs for Holden workers facing redundancy, but flagged an end to so-called corporate welfare, insisting struggling...